Seth Gilbert

6.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
108 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Seth Gilbert is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Seth Gilbert has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 22 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 13 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Seth Gilbert's work include Distributed systems and fault tolerance (49 papers), Optimization and Search Problems (27 papers) and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (24 papers). Seth Gilbert is often cited by papers focused on Distributed systems and fault tolerance (49 papers), Optimization and Search Problems (27 papers) and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (24 papers). Seth Gilbert collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and Switzerland. Seth Gilbert's co-authors include Nancy Lynch, Chaodong Zheng, Prateek Saxena, Loi Luu, Calvin Newport, Michael A. Bender, Jeremy T. Fineman, Rachid Guerraoui, Shlomi Dolev and Alex A. Shvartsman and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Computing Surveys, Computer and Journal of the ACM.

In The Last Decade

Seth Gilbert

96 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Brewer's conjecture and the feasibility of consistent, av... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2016 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Brewer's conjecture and the feasibility of consistent, available, partition-tolerant web services
    2002 845 citations Seth Gilbert, Nancy Lynch ACM SIGACT News profile →
  2. A Secure Sharding Protocol For Open Blockchains
    2016 796 citations Chaodong Zheng, Seth Gilbert et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Seth Gilbert United States 18 2.3k 1.4k 447 247 215 108 2.8k
Dhruba Borthakur United States 16 3.4k 1.5× 2.7k 1.9× 418 0.9× 390 1.6× 127 0.6× 18 3.7k
Boon Thau Loo United States 28 2.9k 1.2× 1.2k 0.9× 756 1.7× 289 1.2× 290 1.3× 185 3.3k
L.E. Moser United States 26 2.5k 1.1× 689 0.5× 520 1.2× 597 2.4× 307 1.4× 122 2.9k
Zhen Xiao China 25 2.5k 1.1× 1.2k 0.9× 456 1.0× 181 0.7× 238 1.1× 69 2.9k
Özalp Babaoğlu Italy 23 2.1k 0.9× 555 0.4× 351 0.8× 439 1.8× 97 0.5× 91 2.4k
Alan Fekete Australia 30 2.3k 1.0× 1.4k 1.0× 451 1.0× 384 1.6× 41 0.2× 138 2.9k
Rodrigo Rodrigues Germany 26 2.1k 0.9× 1.3k 1.0× 805 1.8× 286 1.2× 129 0.6× 73 2.7k
Hakim Weatherspoon United States 27 4.0k 1.7× 1.4k 1.0× 641 1.4× 306 1.2× 252 1.2× 84 4.4k
Flavio Junqueira Spain 22 1.9k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 395 0.9× 184 0.7× 109 0.5× 59 2.2k
T.H. Tse Hong Kong 31 1.2k 0.5× 2.1k 1.5× 628 1.4× 344 1.4× 118 0.5× 143 3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Seth Gilbert

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Fields of papers citing papers by Seth Gilbert

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Seth Gilbert

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Seth Gilbert. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Seth Gilbert based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Seth Gilbert. Seth Gilbert is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gilbert, Seth, et al.. (2024). Compositional Verification of Composite Byzantine Protocols. 34–48.
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Bender, Michael A., et al.. (2024). Fully Energy-Efficient Randomized Backoff: Slow Feedback Loops Yield Fast Contention Resolution. 231–242. 1 indexed citations
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Gilbert, Seth, et al.. (2024). All Byzantine Agreement Problems Are Expensive. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 157–169. 2 indexed citations
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Gilbert, Seth, et al.. (2024). Concurrent Data Structures Made Easy. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. 8(OOPSLA2). 1814–1842.
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Gilbert, Seth, et al.. (2024). DARE to Agree: Byzantine Agreement With Optimal Resilience and Adaptive Communication. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 145–156.
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Gilbert, Seth, et al.. (2023). Byzantine consensus is $$\Theta (n^2)$$: the Dolev-Reischuk bound is tight even in partial synchrony!. Distributed Computing. 37(2). 89–119. 2 indexed citations
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Bender, Michael A., Jeremy T. Fineman, Seth Gilbert, Tsvi Kopelowitz, & Pablo Fernández. (2017). File maintenance: when in doubt, change the layout!. Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. 1503–1522. 2 indexed citations
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Gilbert, Seth, et al.. (2016). Gossiping with Latencies.. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Gilbert, Seth, Calvin Newport, & Chaodong Zheng. (2016). Who are you? Secure identities in single hop ad hoc networks. Distributed Computing. 30(2). 103–125. 2 indexed citations
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Gilbert, Seth, Valerie King, Seth Pettie, et al.. (2014). (Near) optimal resource-competitive broadcast with jamming. Scopus (Elsevier). 257–266. 13 indexed citations
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Bender, Michael A., Jeremy T. Fineman, Seth Gilbert, & Maxwell Young. (2014). NoiseOFF: A Backoff Protocol for a Dynamic, Noisy World.. 1 indexed citations
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Georgiou, Chryssis, Seth Gilbert, Rachid Guerraoui, & Dariusz R. Kowalski. (2013). Asynchronous gossip. Journal of the ACM. 60(2). 1–42. 8 indexed citations
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Gilbert, Seth, et al.. (2012). Aggregation in dynamic networks. National University of Singapore. 195–204. 19 indexed citations
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Georgiou, Chryssis, Seth Gilbert, & Dariusz R. Kowalski. (2011). Meeting the deadline: on the complexity of fault-tolerant continuous gossip. Distributed Computing. 24(5). 223–244. 5 indexed citations
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Bender, Michael A., Jeremy T. Fineman, & Seth Gilbert. (2009). A new approach to incremental topological ordering. 1108–1115. 11 indexed citations
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Alavi, Hamed S., Seth Gilbert, & Rachid Guerraoui. (2008). Extensible encoding of type hierarchies. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 43(1). 349–358.
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Gilbert, Seth, Rachid Guerraoui, & Calvin Newport. (2006). Of Malicious Motes and Suspicious Sensors: On the Efficiency of Malicious Interference in Wireless Networks. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 17 indexed citations
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Dolev, Shlomi, Seth Gilbert, Elad M. Schiller, Alex A. Shvartsman, & Jennifer L. Welch. (2005). Autonomous virtual mobile nodes. 3. 215–215. 17 indexed citations
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Dolev, Shlomi, et al.. (2005). Timed Virtual Stationary Automata for Mobile Networks.
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Gilbert, Seth & Nancy Lynch. (2002). Brewer's conjecture and the feasibility of consistent, available, partition-tolerant web services. ACM SIGACT News. 33(2). 51–59. 845 indexed citations breakdown →

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